A year after Nicaragua\'s coup, the media\'s regime change deceptions are still unraveling
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-16
A deadly arson attack during last year\'s regime change attempt was blamed on Nicaragua\'s government by everyone from the State…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/15/a-year-after-nicaraguas-coup-the-medias-regime-change-deceptions-are-still-unraveling/

Venezuelan Delegation Arrives in Barbados to Continue Dialouge
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
The Venezuelan delegation arrived in Barbados Monday to continue the negotiations with the spokesperson of the country\'s opposition. | RELATED: | Venezuela: US Trying to Destroy Political Dialogue in Barbados | Jorge Rodríguez, the Vice President of Communication, Tourism, and Culture of Venezuela informed about their arrival on Twitter. | \"We have arrived at generous Barbados to continue the dialogue of peace. Together with Pope Francis, we hope that all of us will commit our…
telesurenglish.net/news/venezuela-talk-with-opposition-delegation-in-barbados-norway-jorge-rodriguez-pope-fancis-20190715-0015.html

Three Months Since Arrest of WikiLeaks Publisher: UK Government Holds \"Media Freedom\" Conference While Imprisoning Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Thursday marked three months since WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and into London\'s Belmarsh Prison, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States and a drumhead trial on Espionage Act charges …
globalresearch.ca/three-months-since-arrest-wikileaks-publisher-uk-government-holds-media-freedom-conference-while-imprisoning-assange/5683650

Revanchist Israel Bent on Territorial Expansion. Towards \"Greater Israel\"?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Israel is the only nation without official borders. From its inception it was planned this way to extrajudicially annex more territory. | A territorial expansion plan was drawn up in the 1980s as part of the US/Israel plan to redraw the …
globalresearch.ca/revanchist-israel-bent-on-territorial-expansion-towards-greater-israel/5683600

UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Bachelet\'s Gift to the US: Justifying Regime Change in Venezuela
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet\'s report on Venezuela echoes the US government\'s talking points, which are designed to terminate the two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. The report fails to acknowledge Venezuela\'s manifest accomplishments or even recognize victims of US-backed right-wing violence in Venezuela. The US economic war against Venezuela, US threats of a…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/15/un-high-commissioner-on-human-rights-bachelets-gift-to-the-us-justifying-regime-change-in-venezuela/

Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorizes Immigrant Families
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-15
This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a handful of raids across the country as part of President Trump\'s push to detain and deport thousands of undocumented migrants in 10 major cities. Agents in Chicago reportedly arrested a mother and her children only to quickly release them. Arrests were also attempted in New York City, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where immigrants reportedly refused to open their doors to ICE agents because they did not have warrants. Authorities say more raids are planned this week, prompting fear but also generating mass protests on the ground. We sp…
truthout.org/video/communities-fight-back-as-threat-of-ice-raids-terrorizes-immigrant-families/

Cruelty Is the Point: Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorize Immigrant Families
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-15
This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a handful of raids across the country as part of President Trump\'s push to detain and deport thousands of undocumented migrants in 10 major cities. Agents in Chicago reportedly arrested a mother and her children only to quickly release them. Arrests were also attempted in New York City, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where immigrants reportedly refused to open their doors to ICE agents because they did not have warrants. Authorities say more raids are planned this week, prompting fear but also generating mass protests on the ground. We speak…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/15/immigration_detention_ice_raids_elora_mukherjee

US: Prominent Civil Rights Activist Killed in Louisiana
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
United States police in the state of Louisiana are investigating the murder of a prominent civil rights activist and founder of an African-American history museum, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in Baton Rouge, officials reported Sunday. | RELATED: | Trump Says \'The Squad\' Hates the US, Asks Them to Leave Again | Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was killed by \"traumatic asphyxia, including suffocation\" before her body was found in the trunk of her car in the state capital…
telesurenglish.net/news/African-American-Sadie-Roberts-Killed-Louisiana-20190715-0023.html

Hundreds join united action in Palo Alto, Calif., to shut down Palantir Technologies for complicity with ICE
Jon Britton | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-15
In a great show of unity in action, more than a dozen groups from all over the San Francisco Bay Area joined together July 19 to protest at Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto for the company\'s provision of software facilitating ICE raids, detentions and deportations.
liberationnews.org/hundreds-join-united-action-in-palo-alto-calif-to-shut-down-palantir-technologies-for-complicity-with-ice/

Trump\'s Hissy-Fit Over Darroch Will Blow a Chill Wind Across Britain\'s Embassies in the Middle East
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
Just for a moment, let\'s forget poor old Kim Darroch. Let\'s jump a couple of days in front of this news story. Let me tell you how his utter humiliation and sacrifice at the hands of Trump — and with the connivance of the man who will probably be the next British prime minister –…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/15/trumps-hissy-fit-over-darroch-will-blow-a-chill-wind-across-britains-embassies-in-the-middle-east/

US \'Veterans for Peace\' visit Nicaragua, Establish Chapter
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
\"I would like to underline the importance that your visit to Nicaragua has at this moment, not only for July 19, which is a very important date for us, and not only for the Sandinistas, but for the people in general\", senior member of the ruling FSLN, Doris Tijerino said.
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Veterans-for-Peace-visit-Nicaragua-Establish-Chapter-20190715-0008.html

Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorizes Immigrant Families
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-15
This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a handful of raids across the country as part of President Trump\'s push to detain and deport thousands of undocumented migrants in 10 major cities. Agents in Chicago reportedly arrested a mother and her children only to quickly release them. Arrests were also attempted in New York City, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where immigrants reportedly refused to open their doors to ICE agents because they did not have warrants. Authorities say more raids are planned this week, prompting fear but also generating mass protests on the ground. We sp…
truthout.org/video/communities-fight-back-as-threat-of-ice-raids-terrorizes-immigrant-families/

There\'s Far More Diversity in Venezuela\'s \'Muzzled\' Media Than in US Corporate Press
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation\'s crisis has become perhaps the world\'s most lucrative fictional genre. Ciara Nugent\'s recent piece for …
globalresearch.ca/theres-far-more-diversity-venezuelas-muzzled-media-than-us-corporate-press/5683635

Remnants of War
Kathy Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul at least 40 people, including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of children whose school was partially collapsed by a massive…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/15/remnants-of-war/

Turkey\'s Purchase of Russian S-400 Air Defense System: A Blow to the US War Machine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Turkey\'s purchase of state-of-the-art Russian S-400 air defense equipment at the expense of less capable US Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) missiles is of much greater significance than has been reported. More on this below. | The White | …
globalresearch.ca/turkeys-purchase-russian-s-400s-blow-us-war-machine/5683541

\"This Omar from Minnesota\". Trump\'s Aggressive Tweets
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Just when you thought President Trump couldn\'t get any more absurd, out comes a series of tweets telling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar to \"go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.\" | Omar …
globalresearch.ca/omar-from-minnesota/5683548

Trump Gives Up Citizenship Question but Doubles Down on Terrorizing Immigrants
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
On July 11, President Trump gave up his fight to ask people about their citizenship on the 2020 census. | The question, which the administration has been trying to add to the census since 2017, would have resulted in a significant …
globalresearch.ca/trump-gives-up-citizenship-question-doubles-down-terrorizing-immigrants/5683534

The U.K. Ambassador\'s Horrifying Conclusion About the Iran Deal
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-15
Former British ambassador to the US Kim Darroch alleged in a diplomatic cable that Trump\'s motivation in breaching the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was motivated by nothing more than spite, according to the Daily Mail , which saw the text. | In spring of 2018, then foreign secretary Boris Johnson came to Washington for extensive consultations with Trump and his team, attempting to convince them not to breach the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or Iran nucle…
truthdig.com/articles/the-u-k-ambassadors-horrifying-conclusion-about-the-iran-deal/

Some Iranian women taking off hijabs as hardliners push back on dress code
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-15
A few daring women in Iran\'s capital have been taking off their headscarves in public, risking arrest and drawing the ire of hardliners.The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for one young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran\'s streets without a hijab.With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran\'s morality police, whose job is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Women spend an afternoon around the Persian Gulf Martyrs\' Lake in Tehran (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)\"I have to confess it is really, really scary,\" the 30-year-old fire safety consulta…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/15/some-iranian-women-taking-off-hijabs-as-hardliners-push-back-on-dress-code/

Iran Faces US Aggression and European Hypocrisy, but this Time It\'s Ready
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Western cultural arrogance rears its Medusa-like head each time US President Donald Trump rails about obliterating Iran. | Leaders and politicians of the self-proclaimed free and civilised world — along with some human rights organisations, major media outlets, and state-affiliated …
globalresearch.ca/iran-faces-us-aggression-european-hypocrisy-this-time-its-ready/5683531

Trump\'s Fixation on Intellectual Property Rights Serves the Rich
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-15
Between making threats of actual war with North Korea and Iran, Donald Trump has also gotten us into a trade war with China. Trump\'s ostensible reason for this trade war — the large US trade deficit with China — actually did have some basis in reality, but in practice the trade war is straying into turf that is likely to offer few gains for US workers and could actually lead to sizable losses. | A major theme in Trump\'s campaign was that China is a world-class currency manipulator that deliberately keeps down the value of its currency to give its products an advantage in international trade. The ba…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-fixation-on-intellectual-property-rights-serves-the-rich/

\"Radiating Insecurity\": Will Europe Stand with \"US Hooliganism\", or Stand by Its Treaty Obligations to Iran?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Since the Iranian revolution took power in 1979, the world stood against Iran because it is an \"Islamic Republic\", unwilling to acknowledge and bow to US dominance of the Middle East and the entire world. I say the world because …
globalresearch.ca/will-europe-stand-us-hooliganism-stand-its-treaty-obligations-iran/5683527

Trump Warns Iran\'s Sanctions Will Be Increased \'Substantially\'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts the sanctions against the Islamic Republic and ends their \'bullying\' tactics, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated on Sunday. | RELATED: | Iran Ready for Talks If US Lifts Sanctions: Rouhani | \"We are always ready for negotiation. I tell you this hour and this moment to abandon bullying and lift the sanctions and return to logic and wisdom. We are ready\", Rouhani said, as quoted by the Mehr news agency. | Rouhani sa…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Warns-Irans-Sanctions-Will-Be-Increased-Substantially–20190715-0003.html

US Waterboards Iran and Then Asks for Talks: Former IAEA Head
The Iran Project | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Washington is waterboarding Iran then asks for talks, said former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, adding that no country will cooperate under such \'humiliating conditions\'. | \"They are applying a waterboarding method to Iran, drowning Iran | …
globalresearch.ca/us-waterboards-iran-then-asks-talks-former-iaea-head/5683528

America Pours \"Oil into Fire\" in Persian Gulf. Strategic Waterways. Control of Strait of Hormuz
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
The illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibralter by the British Navy last Friday is fast acquiring farcical character. Britain acted at the behest of the US; in turn, the US probably acted at the behest of the …
globalresearch.ca/america-pours-oil-into-fire-in-persian-gulf-strategic-waterways-control-of-strait-of-hormuz/5683658

I Know What It\'s Like to Be Told to \'Go Back\' to My Own Country
Natasha Hakimi Zapata | truthdig.com | 2019-07-15
As the daughter of Iranian and Mexican immigrants, the president\'s racist attacks on four congresswomen of color have struck me to my core.
truthdig.com/articles/i-know-what-its-like-to-be-told-to-go-back-to-my-own-country/

The War on Syria Continues. Iran Is Next?
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Not only are the ethnic-cleansing SDF playing a central role in the balkanization of Syria, but their criminal occupation of resource rich areas east of the Euphrates affords them and their Imperial masters strategic locations, useful not only for their …
globalresearch.ca/war-syria-continues-iran-next/5675904

Unlike US, UK Foreign Secretary Wants To Save Iran Nuclear Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Britain said Monday there was a \"small window\" of time to save the Iran nuclear deal, as Tehran signaled it would ramp up its nuclear program if Europe failed to do more to salvage the pact. | RELATED: | Leaks Reveal Trump Left Pact With Iran to Erase Obama\'s Legacy | \"Iran is still a good year away from developing a nuclear bomb. There is still some closi…
telesurenglish.net/news/iran-nuclear-deal-uk-jeremy-hunt-brussels-us-donald-trump-20190715-0010.html

Unlike US, UK Foreign Secretary Wants To Save Iran Nuclear Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Britain said Monday there was a \"small window\" of time to save the Iran nuclear deal, as Tehran signaled it would ramp up its nuclear program if Europe failed to do more to salvage the pact. | RELATED: | Leaks Reveal Trump Left Pact With Iran to Erase Obama\'s Legacy | \"Iran is still a good year away from developing a nuclear bomb. There is still some closi…
telesurenglish.net/news/iran-nuclear-deal-uk-jeremy-hunt-brussels-us-donald-trump-20190715-0010.html

UK Says They Will Release Iranian Oil Tanker After Guarantees of Destination
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-15
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt spoke with his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, over the phone on Saturday.
theantimedia.com/uk-will-release-iranian-tanker/

The S-400: Turkey Calls Trump\'s Bluff
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Turkey has just called Donald Trump\'s bluff by going ahead with the purchase of Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles. The outrage in Washington is volcanic. Trump is vowing to rain fire and brimstone sanctions down on the disobedient Turks. | The S-400 …
globalresearch.ca/the-s-400-turkey-calls-trumps-bluff/5683525

China Reports High Economic Growth of 6.3%
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Despite the US trade war, China\'s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday that the country has met its growth targets after recording a 6.3 percent rise in GDP and an 8.8 percent rise in average disposable incomes. | RELATED: | Chinese VP Says World Cannot Shut China Out | Analysts awaited the publication of growth figures to see if U.S. sanctions and tariff war would hinder China\'s ability to reach the government\'s official growth targets, which were a 6 percent rise in GDP for the f…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Reports-High-Economic-Growth-of-6.3—20190715-0014.html

UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution Rejecting US Sanctions
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-15
The draft resolution was approved with 28 votes in favor, 14 against and five abstentions, and was presented by Venezuela and Palestine on behalf of the Movement of Non-aligned Countries.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14585

Venezuela: Guaido Bodyguards Arrested as Barbados Talks Resume
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-15
The self-declared \"Interim President\" claimed his men were victims of a \"set up.\"
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14587

Trump\'s Asylum Ban 2.0 Is Broadest Attack Yet on the Asylum Process
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-15
Today Trump\'s team announced its broadest assault yet on the asylum process: a regulatory change filed with the Federal Register saying that anyone who passes through another country to reach the United States would be ineligible to claim asylum here. Because it is an interim rule, it does not need to go through the regular and lengthy approval process. As a result, unless the courts intervene, at the stroke of a pen Trump will have gutted decades of American asylum and immigration p…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-asylum-ban-2-0-is-broadest-attack-yet-on-the-asylum-process/

Trump\'s Asylum Ban 2.0 Is Broadest Attack Yet on the Asylum Process
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-15
Today Trump\'s team announced its broadest assault yet on the asylum process: a regulatory change filed with the Federal Register saying that anyone who passes through another country to reach the United States would be ineligible to claim asylum here. Because it is an interim rule, it does not need to go through the regular and lengthy approval process. As a result, unless the courts intervene, at the stroke of a pen Trump will have gutted decades of American asylum and immigration p…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-asylum-ban-2-0-is-broadest-attack-yet-on-the-asylum-process/

telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
The United States authorities launched small-scale operations seeking to arrest undocumented immigrants over the weekend in an apparent start to President Donald Trump\'s vow to launch mass deportation round-ups across the country. | RELATED: | 1,600 Migrant Children Were Killed or Went Missing Since 2014 | The operation, which Trump revealed on Twitt…
telesurenglish.net/news/ice-united-states-migrants-arrested-donald-trump-20190715-0007.html